mirrodie wrote:Publius Plunkett wrote:Mirrodie that photo you posted of the iconic Calverton station is amazing! I love the art work on the side. It's so Industrial.Perhaps you need to visit some museums and get out more often?

Agree, it truly is a very fine example of "Vandal Art"... circa 1970 to the current era.

Exactly! Imagine standing there in years past Mirrodie. Farms everywhere and the sound of cows mooing and the smell of duck sh*t wafting through the air. Think about it Mirrodie, being a kid in the late 19th Century and saving your pennies toiling in a Lower East Side sweatshop making petticoats all with a single purpose in mind of travelling to Calverton to go cow tipping. And after months of work you finally buy that ticket to Calverton giggling at the thought of the cow falling over as you push against it. You alight the train at Calverton and dash to the nearest farm and what do you see? A cow! And you run across the field ready to do battle with that cow. The cow looks at you and you look at the cow. The fight is on! You push against the cow expecting it to fall over on its back, possibly with all four hooves in the air! Except all the cows does is move sideways! You try again and again and all the cow does is move sideways! The hours pass and you look at the cow almost begging the poor creature to fall over just once. And all it does is look up at you with sadness in its eyes and chews. Sunset nears and that child, with hopes and dreams dashed, boards the train at Calverton and goes back home to his tenement, sullen and full of despair. Broken, beaten down. Ruined for life! Ripe for recruitment by the many streetgangs of the era.

So don't count out the history of some abandoned, crappy station Mirrode. You never know what it really represents.

AH is still used by LIRR work trains and can still be used for meets. Since the line is in close proximity to the LIE here, it would be an excellent choice for a park 'n ride station if there was any increase in service.

The siding was also used to store retired coaches for the LIST Chapter in the 1970's. Some of the cars formed the basis of RMLI. Others were sold to museums..............